Word: kroger
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Groceries. Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., ever expanding from its Cincinnati base, last week acquired the 115 Pittsburgh stores of the Eagle Grocery Stores Co., whose sales the first half of this year had been $1,873,750, all last year $3,194,604. Kroger now has more than 4,300 stores...
Groceries. To its 3,972 units, the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. last week added the 193 Foltz Grocery and Baking stores, the family trade of many a Kentucky and Ohio housewife, and a large Foltz warehouse and bakery. The public was not invited. Money for the purchase came out of Kroger's treasury...
...indeed stir food chains to merge. At present they number about 800 (with 60,000 stores competing with about 300,000 independent retail stores). Hitherto chain stores have been highly individualistic, each system spreading out like strawberry vines from a parent plant. Nor have they, except for the Kroger grocery stores and the J. C. Penney dry goods stores, done much to soften public opinion excited against them by the neighborhood store keepers. Kroger's and Penney's this year have set afoot large campaigns of "institutional" advertising, praising the service of the chains and attempting to "humanize...
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...Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., which long has sold fresh meats, last week bought the 73 outlets of the Hoosier Grocery Stores, in and around Ft. Wayne, Ind. Kroger now has over 3,800 stores...